The Kunibert Tower near Cologne [copy]
Wenceslaus Hollar|Abraham Aubri
after 1644
![The Kunibert Tower near Cologne [copy] by Wenceslaus Hollar|Abraham Aubri](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/the-kunibert-tower-near-cologne-copy-361770.webp)
Medium
Etching by Abraham Aubri
Dimensions
Plate: 4 5/16 × 6 7/8 in. (11 × 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
Accession Number
62.635.874
Tags
TowersTrees
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Abraham Aubri · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...